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Count Wedel Jarlsberg
Governor-general of Norway
In office
16 September 1836 – 27 August 1840
MonarchKarl III Johan
Preceded byBaltzar von Platen
Succeeded bySeverin Løvenskiold
Personal details
Born
Johan Caspar Herman Wedel Jarlsberg

21 September 1779
Montpellier, France
Died27 August 1840 (aged 60)
Wiesbaden, Germany
Resting placeJarlsberg Manor
NationalityNorwegian
Spouse
Karen Anker
(m. 1807)
ChildrenHarald Wedel-Jarlsberg
Herman Wedel-Jarlsberg
Portrait of Herman Wedel Jarlsberg (by the Danish painter Christian Horneman, circa 1805)
Bust of Herman Wedel Jarlsberg at Bygdøy in Oslo

Count Johan Caspar Herman Wedel Jarlsberg (21 September 1779 – 27 August 1840) was a Norwegian statesman and nobleman. He played an active role in the constitutional assembly at Eidsvoll in 1814 and was the first native Norwegian to hold the post of Governor-general of Norway with the authority of a viceroy, representing the absent king of Norway as head of the Norwegian cabinet during the union with Sweden.[1]

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